Sale of Personal Data from the Electoral Register

Tony

Tony

What Consumer Founder
Apr 7, 2008
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For years now local authorities have been selling on personal data from the electoral register to private firms for marketing purposes or to pass on to other firms. Did you know that? A great many people didn’t, and were shocked to hear about this practice as a result of a report produced recently by the [...]

Sale of Personal Data from the Electoral Register
 
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GlasgowGirl

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I think it is well past time that this practice was stopped. I know that at the moment, you can opt to be included only on the "limited" census register that local authorities hold, and not on the version that they sell to advertisers. But I don't think that's common knowledge, and the difference between the "limited" and the full version is not well explained on the census form. Census data should only be used for administering elections and planning council services - not for selling people things!
 
Tony

Tony

What Consumer Founder
Apr 7, 2008
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Bolton
Absolutely, it would be quite interesting to do a Freedom of Information request to find out how much they actually made from this.

Tony
 
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